Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 14
If the person daring you won't do it themselves, they don't really believe their own claim.
Who acts: person, trick · What happens: dare, not do, not believe, claim · To what, where: you, fence, own claim
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, trick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 4 | daring | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 person | acl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 daring | obj |
| 6 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 believe | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 8 do | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 believe | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 believe | advmod |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 believe | advmod |
| 16 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 claim | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 claim | amod |
| 19 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 believe | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | gerund | the person not said here | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not do a condition, not said to happen | future | the person | fence | trick obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | not believe | present · do-support | trick | trick's own claim | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer claim=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | claim | trick | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:14.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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